As I observe the change process in groups, corporations and individual lives I notice ignoring the transition process blocks successful change rather than support successful change. Without successful transition there is no change. I know of an organization that made a major corporate change that drastically altered the corporate culture. This change was mandated by […]
Why in the world is it so hard to bring about a change in behavior or attitude? Why do we keep making resolutions and never seem to keep them? I don’t remember who said it, but the quote goes, “The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same things expecting different results.” I want […]
Some people seem to cling to things the way they are and resist anything that would change their existence. There are times when holding on to core values becomes very appropriate. Just because something is new doesn’t make it good and doesn’t mean that one must embrace it. I work half of my life […]
Exploring the concept of transitions in the human life continues to be very interesting. I just finished reading Donald Miller’s new book, “A Million Miles In A Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life” and found that in this book, Donald Miller is writing a lot about transition. It is a great book […]
Originally posted on April 1, 2008 Foster, R. (1981). Freedom of Simplicity. San Francisco: Harper. Freedom of Simplicity was published in 1981, and, I have read it, now, three times. It is Foster who, twenty some years ago, began me in the transition to simplicity and it is simplicity that continues to be a tension […]